overblown? billions of users use consumer tier hardware just fine. i have servers at home with years of uptime without any ECC memory
I do hope the nuclear powerplant next door uses more fault tolerant hardware, though.
> I much prefer cheaper hardware.
The cost savings are modest; order of magnitude 12% for the DIMMs, and less elsewhere. Computers are already extremely cheap commodities.
Assuming that's more due to intentional market segmentation than actual cost, yeah I would pay 12% more for ECC. But I'm with the other guy on not valuing it a ton. I have backups which are needed regardless of bitrot, and even if those don't help, losing a photo isn't a huge deal for me.
That was me. It isn't "officially" supported by AMD, but it should work. You can enable EDAC monitoring in Linux and observe detected correction events happening.
> Assuming that's more due to intentional market segmentation than actual cost
That's the argument, yeah.